posted: Mar. 06, 2021.

Really it's so bad. Teens are in trouble. The teens in my group are laughing and screaming, alone in their rooms or wandering in cars or sitting on zoom-homework or Read more

posted: Dec. 25, 2020.

I studied family therapy for many years. Then I studied working with teens. Then I studied trauma. So when I got a new case that had all three I thought, Read more

posted: Nov. 10, 2020.

***Photo Credit: Rebecca Weston Corona Times Every day my phone rings, a parent calling for their 13 yo daughter with depression; or a young adult asking about therapy for isolation/anxiety.  What is Read more

posted: Sep. 29, 2020.

**photo credit: Rosalind Bank I get it, you get it.  For me it only started when my kids began driving.  While I'm sitting in my peaceful suburban bubble working away, the Read more

posted: Sep. 17, 2020.

I kept away from trauma treatment for a long time; I thought it would make me depressed. Yet now that we're in a pandemic, I decided to dive in.  More and Read more

posted: Sep. 02, 2020.

Several of my clients were talking about change.  Hard to leave college.  Hard to make friends.  Hard to find a job, live at home and not know what you want Read more

posted: Sep. 02, 2020.

Photo credit: Rosalind Bank It occurred to me the other day that I was laughing with a client because I completely and utterly understood where she was coming from. And then Read more

posted: Aug. 24, 2020.

     My adolescent clients have been coming in with terrible angst. They are triggered and tested to death. Kids say that school has no meaning because all professors do Read more

posted: Aug. 12, 2020.

     Photo credt: Rosalind Bank Many therapists have "branded" their practices: Winding Road, Finding Yourself, Path to Fulfillment, Thoughtful Change, etc. etc. Nice, calm and creative names. They have a Read more

posted: Jul. 31, 2020.

Photo Credit: Rosalind Bank Why should a therapist be smart, wise, empathic and CURIOUS?  Because we are dealing with individual lives. Lives that are part of the greater society. Lives that Read more

posted: Jul. 21, 2020.

     We all know that panic is painful.  Uncomfortable.  Hard.  Scary.  All I have to do is get a scam call from the IRS and I'm jammed all day Read more

posted: Jul. 13, 2020.

   I am currently running three groups: teen girls, young adult women and 30-something women. The technology is the easy part. Zoom is barely adequate to cover the range of Read more